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Latin letter Z with hook
Z with hook in
Doulos SIL
Z
with hook
,
?
(
minuscule
:
?
) is a letter of the
Latin script
.
The Unicode standard notes "
Middle High German
" for the application of the grapheme, intended to represent the
coronal
fricative
/
s
/
also transcribed as
tailed z
⟨
?
⟩
. It is used in modern printings of Medieval German literature to indicate those cases of
⟨z⟩
pronounced as
[s]
,
⟨?⟩
, modern German:
⟨s⟩
, from
⟨z⟩
pronounced as
/
ts
/
, as is still the case in modern German; the manuscripts typically used
⟨s⟩
to represent
/
z
/
.
-
z and ? in Schade (1868).
-
"same?-, sam?-tac" in von Lexer (1876).
-
Italic z and ? in Paul (1918).
Computing codes
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This letter's Unicode codepoints are U+0224 and U+0225, for uppercase and lowercase respectively.
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